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Monday, June 24, 2013

June Morning In the Downtown

I'd like to
inviteyoufora
morning walkin
thedowntown
of St.Petersburg.
It is a
warm
early
summer morning. Crossing
the Trinity Bridge,
we get
tothe
'Champ de Mars' (Field of Mars).
We
did not visitthe 'Champ
de Mars'inour
other walksin the autumn,
in a foggywinterday
orin early spring.And
nowwe
find ourselvesin
the fieldof
rosesandpeonies.Sincechildhood,
I rememberthe
hugeblossoming
lilacbushes,
but there wasn’t such
a number ofpeonies
and roses.

The
Church of the Savior-on-blood
is
situated over
thethe
'Champs de Mars',
behind the
Mikhail’sGarden,familiar
by theprevious
posts.It's
gorgeousin
every season and now, the Church shinesitsgildeddomesandmosaics
in theJune
morning.

The
Summer Garden
is located oppositethe
'Champs de Mars',
across the
Swan Canal.
Now
in the early
morning,
the sculptures and vases
of flowersare
waiting for theirvisitors.

In
the distance,
the Mikhail’s
Castle is
visible
over the Small Swanbridge.
In XVIII century the
Mikhail’s
Castlewas
surroundedby
a moat,
which
used to befilled
with water,
and now flowers
grow on the edges ofthe
moat.

Behind
the castle,
there are carpet flower
beds
made of
plantswith
decorative leaves. The last one adjoinsto
the building ofthe
Manege.
There
is abeautifulfountain
in
the Manege
square.

Bythe
Italian street
we turn
to the pedestrianMalayaSadovaya
(Small Garden) Street.
This
smallstreetis
well decorated:flowerpotswiththujasandpetunias.
A
beautiful composition ofconifers
andcolorfulannuals.
There
are manycoffee
shops those
will be
filledby
midday. At the end ofthe MalayaSadovaya street youcansee the building of Drama Theaterand the monumentto Empress CatherineII in front ofthe theater.

The interestingfountain
is set on
the corner
of Malaya
Sadovaya:
a graniteball
isrotatedby
water jets flowing
down from thetop.
The sculptures
ofEliseev’sstorequietlylook
atwalking
people.

Our
walking
ends
at theNevsky avenuenearthe
Kazan Cathedral.
Now the fountain
is running its water jets
near the Cathedral, vases of flowers and peonies
arebloomingin
the garden.

Summer
morningends,it's
time to
go back to my garden!

By
the way! Now is the summer solstice and the time of the shortest
night. This time we call “the white nights" because the
Sunrise is at 4.45 and the sunset is at 22.19. And while the sun is
over the horizon the night is light all this time.I took a few
pictures at 11 pm, lighting wasn't enough, but here are the photos:

Thank you so much for taking us to this beautiful city Nadezda! The church with the colourful shining towers is so very pretty and so different from any church I ever saw. I love the other buildings as well, and of course the huge amount of flowers everywhere. Gorgeous garden with all the peonies. What a treat it must be to walk there among these beautiful flowers. You must have enjoyed this city walk. Once again, thanks for letting us enjoy it with you. I will have a look at your other posts about the city as well because I can't remember having seen them. Bye and have a lovely week Nadezda,Marian

You're sharing something really wonderful with this blog. Visiting this blog is a chance to see a city that most people in my country will never be able see. Thank you so much for sharing it with the world. I'm really very moved.

So beautiful to get a tour on this beautiful June day in St.Petersburg. I admired the beautiful buildings, the peonies in front of that beautiful church, the Victorian style flower carpets. Thank you Nadezda, it was great!

Thank you so much Nadezda for taking us on this tour and giving us the opportunity of seeing this beautiful city which many of us may never have been able to experience. Stunning photos of the buildings and gardens. Have a lovely week.Patricia x

Frico, this summer is unique, because we always have cold and rainy summer months. But this year...30 C, 31 C and so on 2-3 weeks. Some days I ask the sky: rain, please! the water tanks are empty.I hope this hot wave will come to your UK, if the Golf stream isn't hot enough. Have a nice weekend!

Thank you, Hanne Bente! I liked the Rose day at Plantorama. There is Free ice cream and rose wine! Nice!You should go on 30th June, at 9 am (just early)! I'd like to come there with you, if I had been in Denmark:))I will read carefully both links.

As you know St. Petersburg is situated near Baltic sea, in the Golf of Finland. Many cruise liners ply to the Baltic cities come here, to the river Neva embankment. One day you will be between the tourists hurrying to bus to go to the Hermitage, I believe!Thank you Jennifer!

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I am Nadezda, a garden blog author for 6 years. I started this blog so that I wanted to share my love of gardening with others.There are over 250 articles on gardening, planting, some features of my garden landscape design, maintenance, soil, seedlings. I'm interested in travel, visiting Botanic Gardens and parks, my city Saint Petesburg.I look forward to and welcome your comments. I will try my best to answer all your questions.